About

Agrupamento de Escolas General Serpa Pinto

Agrupamento de Escolas General Serpa Pinto is a group of schools located in the county of Cinfães, in the north of Portugal.

It is a Priority Intervention Education Territory (PIET) that has about 100 teachers and 1100 students, aged 3 to 15 years old, from pre-school to 9th grade. The Agrupamento has 7 nursery schools and 7 primary schools, spread across the region, and a secondary school, placed in the little town also called Cinfães.

It also has a Centro Qualifica, with almost 500 registered adults, and a Learning Support Centre, consisting of an ICT Resource Center and a Multideficiency Support Unit, which supports dozens of schools in the Northern region in Special Education area.

“Our Country, Our Region, Our School”
a video by AEGSP Erasmus Team.

Cinfães is a small town in Viseu district with about 3500 inhabitants. The county has about 22000 inhabitants spread over more than 100 villages. The small town is located between the Montemuro Mountains in the south and the Douro River in the north.

The landscape is dominated by green colours, very irregular relief, valleys and rivers. Agriculture and animal husbandry are important economic activities through the rurality of the region.
All about Portugal.

“Our Rural Area and Our School”

a PP presentation by Portuguese students working in LIRA.

General Serpa Pinto Institute

Latest Activities

Merry Christmas!

This Christmas we decided to wish our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with this a very short video! WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a …

Mobility 1 Spain

Between the 18th and the 22nd October, the 1st mobility of the Erasmus + “Living in a Rural Area” project took place. After a year of intense online work between …

Blueberry production

In June we visited a blueberry production, called “Do Campo”, which is very close to our school. Everything about this sweet and delicate fruit was explained by the farmer, Miguel …

Memórias cookies and more!

Back in June we also visited a homemade traditional small factory that produces a lot of tasty cookies, jams and marmalade. It’s called Memórias and its products are delicious.

Our study trip to Gralheira

Getting to know better our local products: In May we visited GRALHEIRA , the highest village in Portugal, which is 27 km from our school. There, we have the best …

1st Online Mobility Spain/Portugal

In 2020, due to the Covid outbreak and further lockdown, all the activities planned as part of this project were conducted by all the partners in online meetings. Students got …

Logo

Bearing in mind the topic of this project, the features and symbols of each country, students were asked to create a logo. They focused on it and the result was …

Christmas greetings

Christmas is coming and so we decided so send our greetings to our partners by snail mail. From Portugal to FranceFrom Portugal to SlovakiaFrom Portugal to SpainAnd we also got …